Picture taken on November 8, 2008 shows Germany's Claudia Pechstein competing to place 5th in the 1st women's 3000m event of the 1st leg of the ISU Speed Skating World Cup in Berlin. Pechstein hotly proclaimed her innocence on July 3, 2009 after the International Skating Union handed her a two-year ban for blood doping which would force her to miss next year's Winter Games in Vancouver.